Anxiety: know the five existing types and learn to manage it

Anxiety: know the five existing types and learn to manage it


Did you know that there is no single type of anxiety? This yellow September, understand each of them and find out how to reduce their impact





Anxiety: know the five existing types and learn to manage it

Although many don’t know it, anxiety It is a condition that can develop in different ways and lead to different symptoms. for each person, as explained by the psychologist Reggiane Galanti in the book “Ansiedade Não é Frescura”. Some forms may have multiple physical symptoms, while others manifest in mental worries.

Therefore, it is important to know what types of anxiety exist, to be able to identify them, and to know how to alleviate their symptoms. Especially while we are in Yellow September, a campaign linked to mental health. Here are 5 ways the condition manifests itself and how to reduce its impacts:

generalized anxiety disorder

This type of anxiety is what it makes you have excessive preoccupation with everyday matters, such as family or friends. To deal with generalized anxiety disorder, it is important to create a self-care routine and choose a mindfulness exercise to do every day. Furthermore, practicing healthy thinking techniques also helps.

panic attacks

Panic attacks are a manifestation of anxiety that appears more suddenly with intense physical symptoms, which can also make you feel like you are having a heart attackFor instance.

Again, self-care is extremely important in combating symptoms, see? Therefore, problems such as sleep, food and exercise should never take a back seat.




Sleep and other self-care issues are important for fighting panic attack symptoms - Shutterstock

phobias

In this case, Anxiety manifests itself in intense and often irrational fears, as they are much larger than necessary for that situation. Some of the most common phobias are related to animals or insects, germs or enclosed spaces.

To deal with this type of anxiety, good advice is to try to identify the thought traps that cause irrational fears. Besides, you can also use bidding statements to combat phobias.

Social and separation anxiety

It is that excessive fear that other people will judge or reject you, or that they stay away from the people who are close to you.. To combat your symptoms, the ideal is to find some activities that you really enjoy. This is because, in this way, you will be able to perform them when you are in a situation that generates this type of anxiety in you.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD

Ultimately, OCD manifests itself due to unpleasant thoughts that remain in your mind. You may, for example, become obsessed with the fact that a table can be full of germs and even end up avoiding putting on it or deciding that you need to wash your hands right away.

To combat the symptoms of OCD, you can observe these obsessive thoughts appearing in your mind for a week. So, you have to use this information to build a fear scale and, little by little, you expose yourself to these problems that cause you compulsions.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that, when you find yourself suffering from some type of anxiety, it is important to consult a specialist. This way, you will be able to better understand how to relieve your specific symptoms.

Sources: Book “Ansiedade Não é Frescura”, published by Astral and written by the psychologist Regian Galanti, specialized in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT); and Health Day.

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